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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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“How Gaming helped Launch the Attack of the Internet Trolls” quotes School of Literature, Media, and Communication professor, Ian Bogost, Ph.D.
From The New York Times article:
Trolling can refer to a range of online troublemaking, including posting provocative comments and purposely marring others’ online experience, and it can include attacks on people as much as on software. The practice of ruining things for others, originally known as griefing in the online gaming world, has become a sadly abundant element of internet life.
“Folks who are griefing or trolling feel like they are in a secondary universe that isn’t the same as the real world,” [Bogost] said. “It was a ‘safe space’ for them, in which they did horrible things.”
Read the full article at The New York Times here.
